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The Miller County Liberal
vol. xvi.
A Wind Storm
Sweeps Kestler.
Sunday evening at. about 6
o’clock a storm swept over Kest
ler, and the wild winds left demol
ished houses and terror stricken
residents, ami suffering live stock
in its path.
Dr. P. H. Keaton's barn in
which were nine head of mules
and horses, with herse feed blown
fiat. Eight of the animals were
injured and one killed.
The Baptist church, a neat edi
fice erected just a few years ago
with its contents, organ, etc., wif
demolished.
The smoke bouse and barn of
Mr. B. M. George were torn into
splinters.
A church owned by colored peo
ple was struck by the furious
blasts and laid low.
The do roof from the store of
Messrs Hightower & Co., was
torn off. Their stock of merchan
dise wus partially protected from
the acccmpaning down pour of
rain by the spreading of several
rsw.tolla of oil cloth over the stock.
L,, Shade and fruit trees were up
rooUel. dwellings were shaken 01
lifted from their foundations, and
ihe'uld depot building with the
/ned houses along the G. F. A- A
♦Ure'jvt&k
So the atom wreak
i.t*. *° quickly
was it gone IWit llm . residents
were etrinken
as the reanz d tile damage done'
in such a siujrtHime.
gtThu of - Mr. Gnerry
Philips’ was almost destroyed j
His furniture and stove are badly
damaged.
The residence of Dr. Webb is
also badly damaged as is one own
ed by Mr. C. W. Bridges, which
is unoccupied.
I'he lose is e-dimated at about
850,000, a heavy loss and yet those
who are having the burdens to
bear have much for which to be
grateful as human lives were p.o
lucted from the fury of tl.e rle.
uielits.
Says She Went
Out Giggling.
I
Topeka, Ark., June s.—Gov-|
George H. Hodges flatly deniedj
today that he struck Mrs, Luella
West during a scuffle for the pos
session of certain parole papers in
Hie Governor’s office on Apr il 8,
last. The Governor was testify
ing in the suit brought by Mrs.
West for $2,315 damages for al
leged assault and battery.
The Governor said he merely
took the papers from Airs. West
after she had seized then, from his
desk and did not strike her.
“When she left the office was
Mrs. West crying?” asked Judge
Hawkes.
‘ No, rather giggling,” replied
the Governor.
Does your tin roof leak?
If so call McCollum and
Davis and have it repaired.
B. P. COACHMAN
Carries in Stock
-iLsCOFFINS A. CASKirrSL2i lES
IN THE BtfSH BLOCK. Also furnish
Hearst Services Ip ° r P utof f r ° wn
House Phone 32. or Bush Drug Co 19
WATCH COLQUITT GROW -- THE LEADING CITY OF SOUTHWEST GEORGIA.
Cards Received.
Last week relatives and friends
of Dr. B. Cosby Bird appreciated
the following invitation.
22 Mrs Langdon ChevisStrong
requests the honor of
your presence
at the marriage as her daughter
Chevis Evans
to
Dr. Buford Cosby Bird
on Wednesday evening, the
seventeenth of Juno
Nineteen hundred and fourteen
at half past Severn o’clock
Five hundred and twenty-three
South McDonough Street
Montgomery, Alabama.
Dr. Bird will go over to Mont
gomery Monday.
After the wedding is solemnized
the popular young con le wiii
spend a few days in Birmingham,
and later they will be entertained
iu Atlanta at the home of bis aunt
Mrs. Arthur Gray Powell.
Dr. Bird and his wife wiil reach
nere the last of June or early in
July and will occupy apartments
at the residence of Mr. and Airs.
B. C. Bird.
Colquitt is Defeated
by Kestler Team.
One of the most exciting and
darii fougl.l base ball '{femes oi
the season was played heie lasi
Thursday between the Kistler and
Colquitt teams.
It was the catcher and pitchers
game from the beginning to flit
end, Cowart twirliing for Colquitt
and Pickron for Kestler. Fick
ron struck out 12 men while Cow
art got 17.
Tins was a surprise game to
our home bovs, they had no idea
of a game and bad not piepareo
tjemseivee either in u line up or
practice, but it would hive Ihtill
e<i any oue through to Uave seen
now our boys took care of the in
vaders, and bad they been awart
or prepared there is no telling
wbat the result would have been
K.-stl-r scored the first run in
the ar.l inning and Colquitt made
one hi the sth. The game was I
and 1 until the 7th inning when
Kestler score 2 more runs on er
rors, making the score 3 to 1 in
favor of the visitors.
The feature of the game was the
long tlirow that Jim Bush made
from deep center tc home plate
putting a man out there, catcher
Long gutting the tug.
The boys will go to Kestle* to
morrow, Thursday, and play them
on their home diamond. Every
body that possibly can dosoougni
to go up their with them and help
bring back the score card.
Mr. C. B. Bush went to Atlanta
Sunday to bring oack with him an
Overland louring car for Mr.High
tower of Eldorendo, which was
purchased Mr. J. W.
He was accompanied there and
back by Air. Leon Barrel.
Messrs. A. G. McNair, Dr. C. F.
Bush and J. T. Jones left Sunday
for Atlanta to spend a few days.
COLQUITT, GEORGIA, WEDNESDAY, JUNE U»th, 1914
W. H. Knight Out,
$2,500 Bond.
Last week iu the Superiou Court
Walt Knight was sentenced
lerve twelve months on the chaii
gang for a misdemeanor offense,
His case has attracted quite t
good deal of attention througboui
the county owing to his p.omi
nence, and his escape from jai
some (months ago. Judge Cox
allowed him to give 'bond to tb.
amount of $2500.00 and return
home and finish his crap, and be
with his family that need him al
this time, and report to the Sher
iff in Bainbridge on the first Mon
day in September. The Judge al
so gave Mr. Knight the alterna
live of serving six mouths on Hit
gang and going on probation with
the understanding that it for any
offense whatever he should ever
be brought before the Court iu
must finish the sentence.
The luJness like way in which
Juuge Cos dispatches business
his positive and ready rulings
with fairness to all have strength
ened him in this section winning
new friends and strengthening his
hold upon old ones. He really
makes an excellent Judge.— Don
alsonville Enterprise.
Kestler News.
(By Rego la r Coriespoudeut) J
Mrs. T. <l. Lanier of Blakely
visited at I Ire .home of her mother.
Mrs 8.-lle Coleman, thia week.
Miss hjaz-i Bostwicks returned
t < her home iu Arlington _W»*d
nesday after several days spent ai
the hospitable home of tier sister,
Mrs. D. C. banders.
Misse? Essie Taylor and Bonnii
Reynolds s/oent several cays ol
last week gm-sts of Mrs. J. A
Brooks near Arlington.
Mrs. W. M Bradley and two
children are visiting at the home
of In r mother, Mrs. Ida Ivey near
Camilla.
Miss Ida Grier and her two!
nieces, Misses Annie and Genette
from Hilton are guests st the home
f Mr. and Mrs. G. R. Perry thb
week.
Mesdames Willie and J. W.
fVilvy and children are spending a
few days pleasantly at Panacea
Springs.
Mr. MaoFailan from Newton,
was here Sunday.
Mesdames J. ft. Henderson and
Cora Pickron returned last week
from a two weeks visit at Marion
Fla., where th-?y wer? guests at
the home of Dr. and Mrs. L. C
Ward.
Messrs. J. W. Wiley and Letn
mel Wiley and J 0. Taylor spent
Sunday at Panacea Springs.
Miss Mildred Keaton is at home
from Andrew College.
Messra. Edwin Hunter and Riz
Bell of Colquttt were here Sun
day.
Mr. and Mrs. Grover Jones from
Camilla visited at the home of
Mrs. Jones mother, Mrs. Mabel
Phillips the week end.
The many friends of Messrs Joe
Mims and Connie Middleton will
be interested to learn of their
, marriage Sunday. The bride of
Mr, Mims is Miss Ella Berry from
White Pond community and is a
most excellent young lady, while
i the bride of Mr. Middleton is Miss
iMamie Corley from Arlington and
Hs the pretty and attractive daugh
ter of Mr. Ab Corley, a native of
Miller county. Both couples have
our beat wishes for a bright and
happy future.
A Tribute
To Mother.
“‘For tba body you gave me, the
bone and sinew,the heart and ihe
brain that are yours, my mother, I
thank you. I thank you for the
light in my eyes, the blood in my
veins for my speech, for my life,
for my being. All that 1 am is
from you who borem°.
“For all the love that yiu gave
me, unmeasured from the begin
ning, my mother, I thank you. 1
thank you for the hand that led
mo, the voice that directed me, the
breast that nestled me, the arm
that shielded me, the lap that rest
ed me. All that lam is by you,
who nursed me.
“For your smile in the morning
and your kiss at night, my mother,
I thank you, I thank you for the
tears you shed over n.e, the songs
that you sung io me, the prayers
you said for me, for your vigils
and ministerings. All that I am
is by you, who reared me.
‘ For the faith you had in me,
the hope you had for me, for youi
trust and your pride, my mother,
I thank you. I thank you for
your praises and your chiding, for
the justice you bred into me and
the honor you made mine. AH
that 1 un you taught me.
‘LFor the sore travail that I
caused you, for the visions and de
despair my mother, forgive me.
Forgive me the peril 1 brought
you to, tbs sobs aud the ur-tm* 1
wrung from you and for the
strength I took from -yog, mother,
•forgive me.
*he rdSrir I gave you, for
the alarms and dreads, my mothei,
forgive me. Forgive me the joys
I deprived you. the toils made tor
you, for the hours, the days, and
the years I claimed from you,
mother, forgive me.
‘ For the times that I hurt you,
the times that I 1 ad no smiles for
you. the can-ssea I did not give
you, my mother, torgive me. For
give me for any angers and revoltfe,
for my deceits and evasions, for
all the pangs and sorrows I
orought to you, mother, forgive
me.
“For your lessons 1 did not
learn, for your wishes 1 did not
heed, for Ihe counsels I did not
obey, my mother, forgive me.
Forgive me my pride in my youth
and my glory, in my strength that,
forgot the holiness of your years 1
and the veneration of your weak-;
ness, for my neglect, for my sei
tishnese, for all the great debts of
)our love that I have not paid,
mother, sweet mother, fcigive me.
“And may the peace and the joy
that pasaeth all understanding be
youfs, my mother, forever and
ever, Amen.”
Babcock Items.
Dr. H. E. Ctrroll returned
Tuesday morning from Catlin, 111.
where he and Mrs. .Carroll were
called to the bedside of her father
who was very ill. News has been
received of his death which oc
cured last Wednesday morning.
Mrs. Carroll will remain a while
longer.
Mr C. F. Babcock spent a few
days of last week in Atlanta.
The many friends of Mr. Eu
gene Nelson were very sorry to
hear of his illness in Colquitt.
Mr. and Mrs. S. Lewie spent
Sunday with her parents, Mr. and
Mrs. J. H. Haynes.
Mrs. J. E. Brooks, of Water
town, Fla., is visiting her brother
Mr. J. 8. Dandridge.
Miss Loraine Dauglas is visiting
in Camilla.
Mr. and Mrs. G. T, Largent of
A Birthday Feast.
Dear Liberal;
Would you accept a few words
srom one of your Early County
readers?
Some time ago I received an in
vitation from Judge J. K. Ritchie
of Miller County to be at a birth
day dinner of his youngest son
Master Charlie, who was eleven
years old that day. sometime back
in the Liberal, Bum accused Old
Caesar of winking at his garden
peas on the roaJ, but Thursday
at noon he thought it was more
than winking when the ham,
chicken, cakes and fresh honey
just from the guru commenced to
disappear.
The Judge brought up every
conceivable subject from who
would be elected Governor to the
plowing of billy goats, but it was
uo go. I wanted to pay him back
in that garden pea matter.
Tue man who eat at mv left 1
believe is called W. J. Batribeloi
over there in Miller, I came to the
conclusion Thursday that he must
be a wonderful farmer with his
four horse farm to feed himself.
He must indeed go to a great
many big dinners. But I joined
hands with Col. Batchelor and he
f juud a partner who never shirks
at the table.
Master Charlie .is one among
the beet and brighest pupils of
Griggs school and some day you
can number him among your great
men of Miller County.
Judge and Mrs. J. K. Kitchie
know how to make* it pleasant on
such occasions with a Delightful
■dinner, lemonsde and ice cream.
The people in that community,
are very much interested ib their
school, (Griggs) and will make
every effort, to mail e it a gradeil
school, also we found some good
farmers at that place, with good
roads, but as you have not said
that you accept thia, let us 6ty
success to you and the rest.
OLD CEASAR.
Mr. and Mrs. Vai Hogue took
their little daughter, Ivey, over
to 'Thomasville Tueedav. The
baby has been in a critical condi
tion with pneumonia following an
at*ack of measles for several days.
Mrs. Hogues parents live in
Thomasville ano the friends of
Mr. and Mrs Hogue hope the ba
by will be much benefitted by the
change. _
Mrs. J. G. Jordan has returned
to her home here alter spending
two weeks very pleasantly at the
home of her parents, Mr.and Mrs.
Sam Addison. Her sieier, Miss
Gladys Addison returned with her
Alpany, spent Tuesday with Mr.
aad Mrs. E. H. Taylor.
Mr. Max Davis left Wednesday,
morning for Pedee, S. C., where
he has accepted a position.
Mr. Will D. Brooks, of Eldo
rendo, was in town last week.
Misses Chleo Grimes and Ruby
Christie and Mr. Miller attended
Children’s Day Exercises at the
Methodist church Sunday night.
Mrs. Dan Jacobs is visiting her
parents near Colquitt.
TWO LILLIES.
The Royal Pressing Club
lam doing business in the rear of the Crown
Tailoring Co., and will appreciate anything
in the cleaning and pressing line.
RATES REASONABLE. CLUB MEMBERS WANTED.
“BUD” WATSON.
Tax Equalizers
Are Grateful.
Colquitt, Ga., June 6tii, 1914.
Hon. John C. Hart,
Atlanta, Ga ,
Dear Sir; —
We have abont completed our
work. All has been present and
satisfactory to parties concerned,
Our raise a ! ove it dividual assess
ments wiP be about $230,000, we
are proud to say oui people have
given their taxes at a fair value.
Accept thanks for favors shown
us during the investigation, we
trust you shall be favored as our
selves, having but little trouble in
your work.
Very truly,
P. E. WILKIN
G. P. SHINGLER
G- W. COOK
Board of County Tux Assessors,
Mdh r County, Georgia.
I’o the citizens of Miller County
We thank you for the kind and
efficient manner in which you as
sisted us to arrive at the fair value
of your taxable property. We be
lieve that it will be possible
the County Commissioners to : ■
duce the value of collection.
Very truly,
P, E. WILBIN
G. W. COOK
G. P. SHINGLER
Board of County Tax Assessors.
Miller County, Georgia.
D.D. GRIMES
Clerk.
u Atiauta, Ge ~ June Btfi 1914.
Messrs. P?E. A'ilkfn,-Carrman,
G. W. Cook and G. P. Shingler,
Coiquitt, Ga. ■
Gentlemen; —
1 am in receipt of your letter of
June tith, informing me that you
had completer! your work of Tax
Equalization for Miller County,
am! that as a result thereof there
is a substantial increase of prop
erty values. I note with pleasure
that the work has been satisfactory
to the taxpayers and that you
yourselves have experienced but
little trouble in your work. 1
hope ihat this may Le the verdict
of all of the Assessors "throughout
the State. It is a great work, that
of tax equalization, and your hav
ing undertaken il is conclusive
proof of your patriotism and sense
of justice.
With kind regards and beet
wishes I b"g to remain,
Yours very truly.
•INC. C. HART,
State Tux Commiesiousr.
The meeting of the Board of
frails MoucLy night was a suc
cess. There was some of our
strong farmers that come to it and
pledged their support, and become
members and pledged themselves
to with every effort tc interest
and tell others just what the
Board of Trade is. There is to be
a meeting of the Board Saturday,
June the 21st at 10 o’clock, and
every man in Miller county is in
vited to come. There will be a
meeting some time in the early
party of July that will be an
nounced possibly in the next
w<-eks issue of the Liberal. A
big barbecue, picnic and speakers
of note that will be here will be
here with us and a general big
time is promised to ua all.